Kristin Hannah Quotes

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Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?

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Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

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I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],

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One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

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At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

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It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

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Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. 'Real hurts.'

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The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

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She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

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Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

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But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

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